NASA has apparently been in contact with ‘aliens’ for years. You might want to look at what some dying ex-NASA guys, like NasaJim, have to say about them. They say that the ‘greys’ liken killing someone to popping a balloon. Apparently, they have zero empathy and none of the scientists want to be around them for long. They killed one poor guy with ‘thoughts’, as an example.

So be careful what you wish for. We humans may have the capacity to be as good as it gets. And, there is more to hope for than what you are seeing.

well they are awful and evil but imbeciles they are not. They have you tied down to this FREE SPEACH ZONE aka Dissident Voice.
If you would be effective you would hit the streets and hit’em hard.
but you wont. So, just keep whining and crying here in the FREE SPEACH ZONE that the Rightwingers have allowed you to speak in.
Oh, also, gettin’ angry at me is of no value.

Jeffrey Simpson
Last updated on Saturday, Oct. 03, 2009 03:29AM EDT
With about 10 weeks until the global summit on climate change in Copenhagen, what is the latest science telling us?
In brief, climate-warming predictions of three or four years ago are already out of date. New science suggests an even faster warming than had been thought possible.

In preparation for Copenhagen, the United Nations recently issued a summary report (Climate Change Science Compendium) based on 400 peer-reviewed scientific studies. It found, inter alia, that whereas carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel burning had grown by 1.1 per cent from 1990 to 1999, the increase was 3.5 per cent from 2002 to 2007.

The growth exceeded the most alarming of the scenarios previously outlined by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The most recent report said: “No region is de-carbonizing its energy supply.” The obvious result will be a hastening and intensification of the adverse effects of climate change on the planet.

Few places will be more affected than our Arctic. As the University of Toronto’s brilliant physicist Richard Pelletier told a meeting in Ottawa this week, “CANADA and Russia are the two countries on Earth in the northern regions that will experience the biggest changes.”

If nothing is done to reverse current emission trends, the climate will warm on average by about 3.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, but by twice that amount in the Arctic. It’s part of what is called the Northern Hemisphere polar amplification effect. Warming in the Arctic means the retreat of sea ice and the exposure of more water to the sun’s rays. This pattern feeds upon itself, since both the water and the atmosphere get warmer.
In 2007, according to the latest UN report, “the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to its smallest extent on record, 24 per cent less than the previous record set in 2005” and 34 per cent less than the average minimum from 1970 to 2000.

“This is clear evidence on a phenomenon of importance on a planetary scale,” it says.
It is also part of a well-understood impact of global warming: that it worsens already extreme weather conditions such as drought and storms.
The insurance industry knows this pattern, which is why rates in areas vulnerable to weather-related disasters have been rising.
Weather anomalies abounded in 2008 and 2009, bringing with them tremendous costs. A few examples: Mexico had its worst drought in 70 years; central and southern Chile its worst drought in 50 years; parts of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay the worst drought in 50 years.
The U.S. Southwest experienced its third-worst fire season in 2008 and a persistent drought. Spain and Portugal were struck by severe droughts. Australia had its warmest January since 1950, and drought conditions for a decade continued in some parts. Last month, Australia and New Zealand experienced their warmest August since record-keeping began.

The same anomalies occurred elsewhere in other ways: severe rainstorms, hurricanes, cyclones, floods.
With the scientific evidence continuing to harden, we might expect a focusing of the minds at Copenhagen. Instead, it would appear that hopes for an international agreement have been misplaced.
Some countries, it must be said, are paying more attention to climate change.
India, for example, was previously tone-deaf to pleas that it do something. But with the monsoon cycle being disrupted, Himalayan glaciers disappearing and dry areas becoming even drier, it is now at least willing to talk.
China is proposing to reduce the intensity of its energy use, and is busting ahead with renewable energies, so that it, rather than tardy North American countries, will be manufacturing and selling renewable technologies worldwide.
U.S. President Barack Obama is convinced of the importance of climate change. The House of Representatives has passed a bill, admittedly full of loopholes, that pledges a 17-per-cent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 from 2005 levels. The Senate, however, will water down that target, and almost certainly will not pass a bill before the Copenhagen summit. This week, to show the administration is serious, the Environmental Protection Agency released regulations it could use against large emitters if the Congress does not pass a satisfactory bill.
Despite this welcome attention, gaps among the countries appear too wide for a successful conclusion in Denmark. The most important negotiations are not really there anyway, but rather in Washington and Beijing. If the United States and China, the world’s biggest emitters, can make a deal, the rest of the world will follow.

Meanwhile, the signs of science are becoming ever harder to ignore.

Jeffrey Simpson

“Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that we are all in deep do do”. Unknown author

Thus, the ‘greatest’, ‘great’, and some of the not so ‘great’ amerigos have earned free healthcare, higher education, etc., while the insignificant lato-frikans have not.

It is we, the ‘greatest’ and ‘great’ amerigos who have achieved the greatness of ameriga thru honesty, hard work, love for our ‘great’ country. We have never asked s’mthing for nothing.
It’s the afro-latinos that constantly want s’mthing for nothing. So, shuttayaface and go to work! tnx

Odierno: May not be possible to declare victory in Iraq
U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno makes remark to reporters at Pentagon
About 123,000 U.S. troops in Iraq; could drop to 110,000 by January, he says

October 2, 2009
From Mike Mount
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — It isn’t clear whether the United States will ever be able to declare victory in Iraq, the top U.S. commander there said Thursday.

“I’m not sure we will ever see anyone declare victory in Iraq, because first off, I’m not sure we’ll know for 10 years or five years,” Army Gen. Ray Odierno told reporters at the Pentagon.

About 123,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq now, and President Obama says all combat forces will be gone by the end of August 2010, leaving as many as 50,000 noncombat troops to advise and train Iraqi forces before leaving by the end of 2011.

Odierno has said he wants to draw down the U.S. forces at a faster rate than planned if the security situation allows it. On Thursday, he said he expected the number of U.S. troops to drop to 120,000 by the end of October, and to as few as 110,000 by the end of 2009.

“What we’ve done here is we’re giving Iraq an opportunity in the long term to be a strategic partner of the United States, but more importantly, be a partner in providing regional stability inside of the Middle East,” Odierno said.

Odierno also highlighted continuing security issues inside the country, saying Iraqi security forces have recently seized several “very large” caches of Iranian-made rockets and armor-piercing munitions known as explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs.

“If you’re training people … in Iran to come back into Iraq, and you’re providing them rockets and other things, I call that significant because it still enables people to conduct attacks not only on U.S. forces but on Iraqi civilians,” Odierno said.

At a congressional hearing Wednesday, Odierno said the main threat to stability in Iraq are Arab-Kurd tensions, adding there has been difficulty bringing the two sides together for possible joint patrols.

“We’ve had some very good meetings,” he said. “But we still have some ways to go on that.”

You should know better than to reference your own writing (see footnote 10) in support of your article, even if you do so to point others to citations contained therein.

The nonruling classes everywhere shdl never be blamed for this. Imo, they had been mistauaght from age 5. US ruling class {003-2% of the pop} present to children an entirely fictive reality.
EG, US is a great country; with best laws; standing in defense of freedoms, democracy, justice, etc.
The pols are depicted as public servants. Are light onto amerika; sacrifycing so much for all americans.
The ruling class teaches children to strive for independence and not interdependence. Interdependence, of course, wld make children and adults stronger, healthier; more knowledgable; less frighful; wld thus use fewer drugs; more active politically.
But this wld seriously weaken ruling class’ grip on power and the branches and twigs of that power.
Thus, US ruling class first renders chidren semantically blind. And one cannot flog a blind horse for eating some dung along with some weeds and hay.
So, we don’t flog semantically-blinded kids and adults. A caveat! I am not implying that any poster or blum is doing that on this page. tnx